London Comic-Con 2009
I only found out that there was going to be a Comic-Con on in London on Friday afternoon, and when I found out Jewel Staite was going to be there, I was set in mind to go.
There were some people I wanted to meet: Jewel Staite (Stargate Atlantis, Firefly), Eva Myles (Torchwood), Danny Trejo (what hasn't he been in), Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers), Michael Shanks (Stargate SG1), Tom Baker (Dr. Who), Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap), and Sean McGuire (Off Center).
Unfortunately, Eva Myles was only there on the Sunday so I didn't see her... or the pillow fight :(. To the left however is now my pride and joy of that day when I got to meet Jewel Staite and she signed a picture for me.
Just like in any SquareEnix RPG, there was a weapon shop setup at Comic-Con, selling replicas of well known anime and game weapons, as well as clothing.
It was a tough choice between getting the Master Sword and Tensa Zangetsu, but Zangetsu won since the Master Sword didn't look as great as it could have been.
I suppose it might have just been banged up a little from being a display model for so long. I'd imagine there will be another chance to get it in the Anime Convention in November.
After wandering around a bit looking at what was there me and my friend Glyn went over to the main guest area to see who we could see.
This is where I got my first picture taken with a guy dressed like a Jaffa from Stargate.
Michael Ironside was amazing, he was standing up, talking for a bit with people, poses for pictures. generally nice bloke who didn't seem to want to be rushing things along. Not only that but he was doing this from the morning til late afternoon (apart from his lunch break).
Near the second stage, we came across a group dressed as the Doctor from Doctor Who, my favourite of which was the girl dressed like Tom Baker.
Looking back if I hadn't spent all my money on the Saturday, I would have loved to gone back on the Sunday dressed up as well.
Hueco Mundo and Burritos
Today I'm one step closer to being old, I setup a pension. Next year I'll be 1/4 of 100 year old, which is quite an achievement to last this long, especially with the amount of cars that I've nearly been hit by when crossing the road without looking. I've survived a burst appendix with three days of septicemia, and I have yet to break a bone in my body, kudos to me :D.
Not enjoying Fallout 3 that much, it was fun taking on Super Mutant Behemoth, and now I have the Fat Man, I think it was called that, a mini nuke gun. But I don't seem to be any better off than when I just let Vault 101, however I did get a quest to allow me to set off the nuclear bomb inside the town of Megaton, which I might do after I finish all quests there. Still I'm going to play this til the end, then probably sell it on if I haven't fell in love with it by then.
I've been recently working on using OpenGL with Cocoa, rather than using GLUT to do everything, better to learn how Mac OSX works rather than rely on a flawed framework. There is a great lack of any tutorials, or demos of this, everyone just seems to use GLUT, so I'll probably popup a few vidoes and a tutorial, my YouTube account doesn't get used for much, so it'll be a nice change.
I also recently went back to Wrath of the Lich King, my friend Pete gave me access to the Beta when they were testing it and I enjoyed the Death Knight stuff, and recently I got a 10 day free trial, so I bought the expansion and I've been playing it. Its quite fun, I think its just a change of scenery, I actually spent ingame gold giving my character a haircuit so I wasn't using the sameone I have been since the game started.
Unfortunately, the gameplay is still the same, with what I saw of the Death Knight stuff when playing in the Beta, I hoped for more. One thing that annoys me alot is the fact that Daralan is flying, and you need to have been there once to get the FP. Two more levels...